[PATCH 1/2] Documentation: raise minimum supported version of binutils to 2.25.1

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:10 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Binutils 2.23 was released in 2012. Almost 10 years old.
>
> We already require GCC 5.1, which was released in 2015.
>
> Bump the binutils version to 2.25.1, which was also released in 2015.
>
> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy at kernel.org>
> ---
>
>  Documentation/process/changes.rst | 4 ++--

This document has also been translated into Italian. Let's keep them in sync?
Documentation/translations/it_IT/process/changes.rst

Either way.
Acked-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers at google.com>

grepping for binutils shows lots of potentially stale references to
even older versions of binutils. There may be more cleanups lurking
than just the ppc ld-ifversion check.


>  scripts/min-tool-version.sh       | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> index 19c286c23786..5fb6a60677ef 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ GNU C                  5.1              gcc --version
>  Clang/LLVM (optional)  11.0.0           clang --version
>  GNU make               3.81             make --version
>  bash                   4.2              bash --version
> -binutils               2.23             ld -v
> +binutils               2.25.1           ld -v
>  flex                   2.5.35           flex --version
>  bison                  2.0              bison --version
>  pahole                 1.16             pahole --version
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ Bash 4.2 or newer is needed.
>  Binutils
>  --------
>
> -Binutils 2.23 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
> +Binutils 2.25.1 or newer is needed to build the kernel.
>
>  pkg-config
>  ----------
> diff --git a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> index 250925aab101..8b1edd1f7281 100755
> --- a/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> +++ b/scripts/min-tool-version.sh
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ fi
>
>  case "$1" in
>  binutils)
> -       echo 2.23.0
> +       echo 2.25.1
>         ;;
>  gcc)
>         echo 5.1.0
> --
> 2.34.1
>


-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers